Another Person's Illness Is Often Harder To

To Lose Somebody Is To Lose Not Only Their Person But All Those Modes And Manifestations Into Which Their Person Has Flowed Outwards; So That In Losing A Beloved One May Find So Many Things, Pictures, Poems, Melodies, Places Lost Too: Dante, Avignon, A Song Of Shakespeare's, The Cornish Sea.

The Priesthood Is A Marriage. People Often Start By Falling In Love, And They Go On For Years Without Realizing That Love Must Change Into Some Other Love Which Is So Unlike It That It Can Hardly Be Recognized As Love At All.

There Is No Substitute For The Comfort Supplied By The Utterly Taken-for-granted Relationship.

Learning Philosophy Is Learning A Particular Kind Of Intuitive Understanding.

Being Homosexual Doesn't Determine A Man's Whole Character Any More Than Being Heterosexual Does.