Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.