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

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

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

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.