An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.