Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

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