When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.