It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words. ... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into it beauty and meaning. ... I wonder why my life, why all lives, are not more beautiful.

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers