When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

Remember that I too am mortal.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.