It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity, with their vast mass of idle books and idle words, have neve...
You don't expect me, he said, to revolutionize society on this lawn?Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly.No, I don't, he said; but I suppose that if you were serious about your anarch...
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prize-fighter? Who would stoop to be fearless - like a tree? Fight th...
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.
Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise.
This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these lunatics to go down into their dark room and die for something that they could not even...
Then, what, asked Turnbull, very slowly, as he softly picked a flower, what is the difference between Christ and Satan?It is quite simple, replied the Highlander. Christ descended into hell; Satan fel...
The truth is that the old parliamentary oligarchy[Pg 227] abandoned their first line of trenches because they had by that time constructed a second line of defence. It consisted in the concentration o...
The truth is people who worship health cannot remain healthy on the point.
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have dou...
The little sins are sometimes harder to confess than the big ones—but that's why it's so important to confess them.
The devotee is entirely free to criticise; the fanatic can safely be a sceptic. Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose; and the text of Scripture which he now most commonly quotes is, The Kingdom of heaven is within you. That text has been the stay and support of more Phar...
The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a tou...
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.
St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
Only a man who knows nothing of motors talks of motoring without petrol; only a man who knows nothing of reason talks of reasoning without strong, undisputed first principles.