I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.