And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.