That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

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.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

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

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.