For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday.

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.

when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.