When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.