Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.