I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.