She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.