Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

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

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

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.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.