Lost Lectures or The Fruits of Experience
Maurice Baring, Lost Lectures of the Fruits of Experience.
Peter Davies Ltd, London: 1932. From: High-Brows and Low-Brows
Over and over again it has been my fortune...
Introduction to the Devout Life
31. Pastimes and recreations. To get out into the open air, be entertained by happy, friendly conversation, play the lute or some other musical...
Song (To C. L.)
From collected poems, 1911
Song (To C. L.)
The corn is garnered, the swallows fly,
The leaves fall soft on their wintry bed.
There was a dream in...
My beads
Born either in 1834 in Limerick, Ireland or Norfolk, Virginia, Fr. Ryan was described by a contemporary as having “an open, manly character.” He...
The Three Taps
Chapter 1. The Euthanasia Policy
In a sense, though, insurance was but an empirical science until the Indescribable Company made its appearance. The man who...
Summa, Question 168: mirth.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologica Question 168, Article 4.
Whether there is a sin in lack of mirth?
I answer that, In human affairs whatever is against reason is a...
The Path to Rome
From the preface to The Path to Rome, 1902
I said, “I will start from the place where I served in arms for my sins;...
Generally Speaking
On American morals
As I also have the habit, and have never been able to imagine how it could be connected with morality or immorality,...
The Ballad of the White Horse
“Mother of God,” the wanderer said,
“I am but a common king,
Nor will I ask what saints may ask,
To see a secret thing.”
***
“When our last...
Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily...
