In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

One can't measure how a mood of confidence comes about.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.