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

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

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

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.