Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.