orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.