The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

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.

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage