It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

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.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.