The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.