Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?