Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.