Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.