"What, still alive at twenty-two, A clean upstanding chap like you?What still alive at twenty-two, Sure, if your throa…"

"Like enough, you won't be glad, When they come to hang you, lad: But bacon's not the only thing That's cured by hangi…"

"The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, …"

"'Tis Summer Time on Bredon, And now the farmers swear: The cattle rise and listen In valleys far and near, And blush …"

"Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and that no one is alive."

"Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the…"

"Every false philosophy is an imagination of a world propitious to irrational demands and unregulated desires. The fal…"

"There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but bro…"

"Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues."

"Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances…"