To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.