Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.