In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.