Ideas Get Substance And Value Not By

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.

Bacon's Not The Only Thing That's Cured By Hanging From A String.

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

Society Is Based On The Assumption That Everyone Is Alike And No One Is Alive.

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.