It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.