Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

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.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.