"I go to the Chinese corner of my library — a peaceful, happy corner! What wisdom there is in these ancient books and how amazingly timely it can be !"

"Enchanted woods are rare. But I suspect that where they exist, and seem — so deep is their magic — to march nowhere on reality, they are most often within a stone's-throw of the dear homes of every day ; nor is it needful to travel very far afield in order to find them."

"The spectacle was born from the world's loss of unity, and the immense expansion of the modern spectacle reveals the enormity of this loss."

"Give us spare time, Holy Jerome, and joyful energy to use it."