“Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”

“Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”

“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”

“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”

“All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.”

“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?”

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”