California is an Italy without its art.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!