The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.