No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.