The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.