All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

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?