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.

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.