When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

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

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.