Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.