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

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.