Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.