Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.