But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.