“...his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.”

“To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.”

“If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.”

“Self expression is a vital part of understanding life, and enjoying it to the full.”

“So it would be, were it not for the law of inertia, as immutable a force in men and nations as in inanimate bodies. In men it takes the form of the psychological principle, so truly expressed in the words of the Gospel, " They have loved darkness better than light, because their deeds were evil." This principle shows itself in men not trying to recognise the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth.”

“I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.”