The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.