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.

I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.