The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.