No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.