The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.