Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."