I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

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

I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!