The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

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.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

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