The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

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.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.