Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.