For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.