England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.

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

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.