What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.

The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.