It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

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

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.