It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.