A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.