What's Wrong with the World

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to…

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ... Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into…