I work whenever I'm let.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

The past is never where you think you left it.

One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.