The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

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