Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.