The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.