A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.