The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.