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

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.