All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

Never test another man by your own weakness.