Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

The U.S. Open is the only place in America where you can't trade in your Mercedes-Benz for a hamburger.

Every decoding is another encoding.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.

Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.