He was a thoroughly bad hat, then, but that was the kind, of course, that nice women broke their hearts over. - Hannah Arendt

All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn’t express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it — in other men’s words.

I have sometimes thought that Catholicism is a religion not suited to the laity, or not suited, at any rate, to the American laity, in whom it seems to bring out some of the worst traits in human nature and to lend them a sort of sanctification.

I understand what you are feeling,” he said. “As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what people think. It happens to one in a thousand, and to that one it is a revelation. No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.