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

“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine.”

“Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.”

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

“Is there any reward?I'm beginning to doubt it.I am broken and bored,Is there any reward?Reassure me, Good Lord,And inform me about it.Is there any reward?I'm beginning to doubt it.”

“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”

“For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.”