She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.