Occupation: Writer Birth: July 27, 1870 Death: July 16, 1953
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 se….
When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at ….
Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about..
Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the b….
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest mater….
Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively pa….
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography..
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night..
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy..
How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!.
The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope..
Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure..
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean..
The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the ….
I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew tha….
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment..
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had l….
That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blam….
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise..
I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If yo….
The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today univer….