We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

The grace of God is courtesy.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."