People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

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