...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.