Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

there is no pornography without a secrecy.