Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

genius has no limit of sex or race.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.