“This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.”

“Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?”

“And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides.”

“One definition occurred to both of themthat he had come out into the light of that lucid and radiant ignorance in which all beliefs had begun. The sky above them was full of mythology. Heaven seeme...”

“I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill himonly to bring him to life.”

“She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.”

“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”

“If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.”

“There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth.”