Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.