From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into th...e idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through ...the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal ru...les--don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we... cannot return.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
psychologist Mothers with marriageable daughters ought to look out for men of this stamp, men with brains to act as protectin...g divinity, with worldly wisdom to diagnose like a surgeon, and with experience to take a mother's place in warding off evil. These are the three cardinal virtues in matrimony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason. Be upon your guard, too..., against those who confess, as their weaknesses, all the cardinal virtues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »