These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.