And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

The more you know, the more you see

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.