Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.