Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
Truth is one, but error is manifold.
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
Official history is believing the murderers at their word.