The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

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