The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.