To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.