If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

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

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.