A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.