One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

The map appears to us more real than the land.

There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.