we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

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

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.