You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.

One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.