The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.