Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

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.

We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.