A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

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.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

The only object of liberty is life.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.