“I value the lover'ssighs of happiness and I despise the hypocritemumbling his prayers.”

“That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.”

“Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?""No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.”

“In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it, such as the philosopher Herillus, who find in it the sovereign good and think it has the power to make us wise and happy.”

“One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]”

“... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell. ”