A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.