[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

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.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.