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

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

Every joy is beyond all others.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.