Events are influenced by our very great desires.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

Choose a self and stand by it.