Badness is only spoiled goodness.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.