It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.