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

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.