Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

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.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.