In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.