. . . if you live long enough, you will learn that this world is full of deceptions - H. Rider Haggard

. . . there is a way out of most difficulties if only it can be hit upon.

. . . your praying men . . . are cast in one mould and measured with one rule, and say what they are taught to say, not thinking for themselves . . . Some of them think . . . and then the others fall on them with big sticks. The real priest is he to whom the Spirit comes, not he who feeds upon its wrappings, and speaks through a mask carved by his father’s fathers.

. . . little in the world is pretty, except the world itself.