Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.