Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

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

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.