There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?