O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.