What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.