Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.