The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

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

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.