There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!