“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 mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply there , never to change, and in its constancy it… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now. We kneel… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“...friendship stands as a small affront to the total control of all things by mass entertainment and mass media and mass education and mass… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.” — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are,… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for example they… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“It's rather the possibility of friendship, unencumbered by feelings of attraction or shyness; the possibility of working on the same wavelength, as it were,… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“For in those days I had no idea that many of the greatest books are like a forest, and that the best way to… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“The love of the married man and woman is not a private romance, but a recapitulation of the love that brought them into being… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“The imagination opens out not principally to what it knows and finds familiar, but to what it does not know, what it finds strange,… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share
