No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous. Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performace of the pieties enjoined by the Church.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any

Man is the lowest animal.

I do not want Michaelangelo for breakfast - but for luncheon - for dinner - for tea - for supper - for between meals.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion –- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.