He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.