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

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

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.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.