Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

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

All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.