And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

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

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.

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.