I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.