Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."