Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

It is the Mass that matters.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on.

Everything is good when it is on time.

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'