Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.