"Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its dis…"

"I hardly ever did anything that was not in some sense a ritual."

"The true man is a king, a priest, a god."

"May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!"

"The universe is a mirror of the soul."