A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.