What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Life is a vacation God gives to you!

But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

You cannot change the outer event, so you must change the inner experience.

Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.