To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.