Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.