A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane...
There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain.
Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.
To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
When “everyone knows” that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.
I’ve been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
Atheism is too theological.
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.