There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.

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

To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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