It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

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

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.