Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.