The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.