Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

youth is a marvelous garment

Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul in its search for Good, the force that joins us to Good and joins us to the world through Good. Its existence is the unmistakable sign that we are spiritual creatures, attracted by excellence and made for the Good. It is a reflection of the warmth and light of the sun.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.