I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

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.

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

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.