The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.