Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.