What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

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

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.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

Theories have nothing to do with life.

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.