Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

...These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-""That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment

There is two rules to win your battle, Fight smart & fight alone

Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.