A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.