My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.