Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.

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