It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.