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.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

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

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

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.

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.