As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.

In worship, God imparts himself to us.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.