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

In worship, God imparts himself to us.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.