A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.