The only object of liberty is life.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."