audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

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

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

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.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.