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

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

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