The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

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)

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.