Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.