Quotes by : Anthony M. Esolen

How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man....

You democratize heroism. Everybody is a hero, and simply for doing (and often not well at that) the ordinary....

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right....

G.K. Chesterton once wrote that the trouble with people who do not believe in God is not that they then....

We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us....

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the....

And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of....

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers....

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all,....

If we loved children, we would have a few. If we had them, we would want them as children, and would....