Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.