Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.