If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.

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.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.