In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.