The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.