Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.
Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.