The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

I prefer men to cauliflowers

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams