If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.