In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

In adversity man is saved by hope.

I could live a week on one good compliment.