There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.