Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.