We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

to teach without zest is a crime.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.