Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

There nearly always is a method in madness.