Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.