The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.