The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.