It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.