He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.

Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.

He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.

A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.

life is hard.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 Beginning a series on the church: The laity... living in the world as an integral part of it, is the primary body through which the reality of the phrase "the Church is service" has to be manifested in all spheres of secular life: the Church has to show in her own life and attitude towards others the evidences of the redemptive order which is in Christ an operative fact: Christ the Lord is also Christ the servant: the Church which is the lord of all life is also the servant of all life, and the lordship is shown only through the service. The world wants to see redemption: it is not interested in being talked to about it. A church which is not outward looking... has ceased to be a church as the Body of Christ and has instead become a club for the benefit of its members.

Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

If it took a nickel to get around the world, I couldn't get past the front door.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.