One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.