Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.