For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any individual to answer - is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.