For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?