I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.