It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.