It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

Effort is a measure of a Man.