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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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