Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.