The land belongs to the future.

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.