but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.