If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

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.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.