When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.