What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.