It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant... You will not be able to set up in a pagan or an heretical or a wholly indifferent society the institutions characteristic of economic freedom; you will not be able to curb competition which alone would be sufficient to destroy such freedom, nor pursue permanently and consecutively any one part of the program. The thing must be done as a whole, and it can be done as a whole only by the ambient influence of Catholicism.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

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

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.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.