Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.