The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.