“I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.”

“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”

“I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.''The time will come, dear, the time will come.”

“It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.”

“Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.”

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”

“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”