Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.