Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.