They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

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.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.