See sampling below.

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Here is a sampling from the 281 alphabetically organized catagories:

Faith and Reason: "Some hold the undemonstrable dogma of the existence of God; some the equally undemonstrable dogma of the existence of the man next door."

Educational theory: "A child is a human being who has not grown up; to hear educationists talk one would think he was some variety of a deep-sea fish."

Marriage: "To put the matter in one metaphor, the sexes are two stubborn pieces of iron; if they are to be welded together, it must be while they are red-hot."

Law: "In our legal method there is too much lawyer and too little law."

Religious humility: "No Catholic thinks he is a good Catholic; or he would by that thought become a bad Catholic."

Secularism: "To be secular simply means to be of the age; that is, of the age which is passing; of the age which, in their case, is already passed."

Tradition: "I was always rushing out of my architectural study with plans for a new turret only to find it sitting up there in the sunlight, shining, and a thousand years old."

Economics: "Personally I think the Socialist and the Capitalist are very much alike, especially in the great unifying quality of being both wrong."

Environmentalism: "The main pint of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister."

Mythology, Fable, and Folklore: "There can be no good fable with human beings in it."

Law: "The Judge is unreliable, as all human history proves, which is a mere tissue of the partialities, pious frauds, government persecutions and hack butcheries of the hired Judge on the bench."

Heresies: "The heretic is a man who loves his truth more than truth itself."

Wives: "A man's friend likes him but leaves him as he is: his wife loves him and is always trying to turn him into somebody else."