Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

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

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

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