Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.