If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.