Progress is the mother of all problems.

There nearly always is a method in madness.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

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.

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.