One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

Convictions do not imply reasons.