Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

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.