You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.