You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

The end is in the beginning.