It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.