If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.