There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

The world is crammed with delightful things