Human experience is usually paradoxical.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.