Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.