How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

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

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.

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

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

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

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.