All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Love is not consolation. It is light.