Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.