Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.