Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.