Friends Are God's Apology For Relations.

The Reward Of Renunciation Is Some Good Greater Than The Thing Renounced. To Renounce With No Vision Of Such A Good, From Fear Or In Automatic Obedience To A Formula, Is To Weaken The Springs Of Life, And To Diminish The Soul's Resistance To This World.

There Are Dons Who Care For The Intellect And The Imagination, And There Are Priests Who Care For The Spirit; But Broadly Speaking The Function Of Universities And Churches Alike Is To Trim And Tame Enthusiasm, To Suppress Curiosity, And, In Short, To Whittle Immortal Souls Into Serviceable Props Of The Established Order.

Charity May Cover A Multitude Of Sins, But Success Transmutes Them Into Virtues.

It Is Difficult To Love Mankind Unless One Has A Reasonable Private Income, And When One Has A Reasonable Private Income One Has Better Things To Do Than Loving Mankind.

Hamlet Is Egotism As It Appears To Itself, And Don Quixote Is Egotism As It Appears To The Detached Observer.