Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.

There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

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?

One must love everything.

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.