A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.