Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

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

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.