The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.