"I had never heard a Mass like that one.. the church vault was split open, the walls were rasped and peeling, the alta…"

"Think deeply about this: what are you going to ask of Christ when you are in his Church? You come stepping in softly,…"

"La parladura Francesca val mais et [es] plus avinenz a far romanz e pasturellas; mas cella de Lemozin val mais per fa…"

"There is not in the circle of human happiness a cup of honey that has not its drop of gall."

"In our poor human nature, joy and sorrow often manifest themselves by the same symptoms; and a piece of good news wil…"

"In his short tales he is most successful when he indulges in the sentimental; he is less attractive when he gives utt…"

"To boast of the help you gave a brother in need is to cancel the good of your deed."

""Be glad," she said, "God brought you to fifty years in your world"— but didn't know there's no division between, as …"

"The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose."

"Must we invoke some sort of cognitive dissonance to explain how the same man could, with no apparent sense of inconsi…"