In the Critique of pure reason nothing obviates suffering or cant.

Childhood today is not made up of dreams, but appointments.

The terrors of youth are merely errors of old age.

The death of a poet brings new life to another.

What is romanticized is not yet realized.

To the masses God is left hanging.

How profound it is for humanists to love great liturgical music.

Some wear a cross, have a cross, hide a cross, live and die for the cross; others are merely cross.

Those who sit in the corner usually have first been cornered.

Fascism exhibits the fetishism of fools.

Christmas rush; then a hush.

Persecution of Catholics in Tudor England, of secret Jews in Isabella's Spain, of Protestants in the reign of Mary, of Old Believers in Russia, of minority faiths even in the New World.