I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.