People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.