If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.