Love is friendship set on fire.
~ Jeremy Taylor
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
