"There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better. - William Ralph Inge

So the pendulum swings, now violently, now slowly; and every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.