We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

The promise, made when 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.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.