No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

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

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.