Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?