We are so conceited and so unproud.

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.

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

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.