The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.