The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
The only things worth saying are those that we forget, just as the only things worth doing are those that the world is surprised at.
Maturity is one long career of saying what one ought not to say. That is the art of conversation.
Virtue is generally merely a form of deficiency, just as vice is an assertion of intellect.
People teach in order to conceal their ignorance, as people smile in order to conceal their tears.
To be unnatural is often to be great. To be natural is generally to be stupid.
To lie finely is an art, to tell the truth is to act according to nature.
People who talk sense are like people who break stones in the road: they cover one with dust and splinters.
Jesus said to man: You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your perfection is inside of you. If only you could realise that you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man, real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you. Try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you, and try also to get rid of personal property. It involves sordid preoccupation, endless industry, continual wrong. Personal property hinders individualism at every step.
When Jesus talks about the poor He simply means personalities, just as when He talks about the rich He simply means people who have not developed their personalities.