It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.