You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.