Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

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

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

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

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.