One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.