I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.