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

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.