Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

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 modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.