“A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.”

“And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.”

“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”

“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”

“Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.”

“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”

“Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues...”