Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.