In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.