This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.