The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.