Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

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

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.