You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

War makes rattling good history.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.