Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.