I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.