New things are always ugly.

An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.