I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.