Thanks are the highest form of thought.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.