Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

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

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.