A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.