One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase - the pursuit of happiness - is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.