Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.