The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.