The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.