For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!