On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except the fact that they are so. - William Ralph Inge

two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall — dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.