The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.
I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.