You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.