Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.