Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

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

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.