One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.