Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

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

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

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