I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.