Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.