The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.