There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

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 #‎ cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.