One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Read Summary
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Read Summary
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. Read Summary
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Read Summary
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Read Summary
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Read Summary
Language is wine upon the lips. Read Summary
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. Read Summary
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Read Summary
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Read Summary
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. Read Summary
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. Read Summary
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. Read Summary
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. Read Summary
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Read Summary
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Read Summary
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. Read Summary
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Read Summary