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

The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.