Men became scientific because they expected law in Nature; and they expected law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. - C. S. Lewis

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.

We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.