Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.