After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

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

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

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.