I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

I think our lives are surely but the dreamsOf spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.

After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

Details are the Life of Prose.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.