We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds- making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.