We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.