Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
Circumstances break men’s bones; it has never been shown that they break men’s optimism.
A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane...
There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain.
Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.
To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
When “everyone knows” that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.
I’ve been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.