Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.