You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the last traces in a less philosophical age of the ideas which Plato taught his disciples existed in the spiritual world.

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

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

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.