Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.