Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.
There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.