Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.

God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.