We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.