Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.