if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.