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

All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.