Book Review: En Route by Joris-Karl Huysmans Translated by Charles Kegan Paul
“But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” (Luke 15:32)
“But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” (Luke 15:32)
“Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have learned of their fathers: For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need.”
– Ecclesiasticus 8:11-12
“With his spirit at once humble and swift, his memory ready and tenacious, his life spotless throughout, a lover of truth for its own sake, richly endowed with human and divine science, like the sun he heated the world with the warmth of his virtues and filled it with the splendor of his teaching.”
– Leo XIII on St. Thomas Aquinas
“Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.”
– Psalm 96:12
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
“When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.”
– John 19:26
“The Greek epics express, with an incomparable depth and fulness, the eternal knowledge of truth and destiny which is the creation of the heroic age—the age that cannot be destroyed by any bourgeois ‘progress’.”
– Werner Jaeger
“Thou touchedst me, and I burned for Thy peace.” – St. Augustine
“If thy heart be pure / The Grail will be to thee as food and drink!” – Gurnemanz
“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
– 1 Peter 2:17