It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.