A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.