Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.