It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!