A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.