[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry