I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.