We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.