“The silent bear no witness against themselves.”

“Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.”

“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”

“These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.”

“I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.”

“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear.”

“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.”