Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

The religions we call false were once true.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.