Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

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

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

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