Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?