They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

All women are rebels.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.