If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

Progress is the mother of problems.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.