The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.

Property, as a general social institution, well-divided property, having disappeared and Capitalism having taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.