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

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

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.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?