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

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

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

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.

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

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.