There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained