[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'