Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.