The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

“Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory…”

“What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernic…”

“I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I…”

“If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live o…”