Anthony M. Esolen

Quotes

• “We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but me...”
• “For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to ta...”
• “Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but b...”
• “For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have ...”
• “The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author w...”