Essential and Limited
And there, indeed, is one of the great and marvelous features of beautiful books (and one which will make us understand the role, at once essential and limited, that reading can play in our spiritual…
Month: December 2025
Today’s One-Liner (#312)
[Y]ou know the greatest of all Balzac’s novels is Cousin Bette. –Jack Kerouac to Allen Ginsberg, The Letters, 392
A Personal Summa
The Summae of old were the Bibles of knowledge: we have now no Summae, and no one among us is capable of writing one. Everything is in chaos. But at least, if a collective Summa…
Today’s One-Liner (#311)
Reflect that in this world nothing but virtue and devotion can satisfy your soul. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, trans. John K. Ryan, 270