No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Theories have nothing to do with life.