I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
God is for men, and religion for women.
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.