Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

Christ birth is the beginning of love for mankind.

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

I love dark chocolate - I could eat it 'til I puke.

The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.