The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

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

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.