A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.