We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.