Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.