Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.