The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.