It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.