The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

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.

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.