They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.