Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

Progress is the mother of all problems.