Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

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

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.