A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.