For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.