All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.