There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.