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

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

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

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.