Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.
Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.
The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.