For the Bible there is nothing numinous$$$ no holy or divine presence$$$ within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others$$$ at all the potentially guilty.

There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

We are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.

We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.

To be simple is no small matter.

Sadness is a vice.

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.