The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.