A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.