The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.