The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?