Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.