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

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know