I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.