It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G. K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
We are American at puberty. We die French.
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
Nature is a series of murders.
To see the farm is to leave it.
I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough.
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.