James had in view clear principles and struggled for political ideas which are not doomed when their expression is defeated. - Hilaire Belloc

It is in the irony of Providence that the more man comes to control the material world about him, the more does he lose control over the effects of his action; and it is when he is remaking the world most speedily that he knows least whither he is driving.

The object of a religion or a philosophy is not to make men wealthy or powerful, but to make them, in the last issue, happy: that is, to fulfil their being.

When you have lost your inns, you may drown your empty selves. For you have lost the heart of England.