“But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination. ”

“I blame myself without reserve for my weakness. It was merely weakness. One half-hour with Art was always more to me than a cycle with you. Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.”

“Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.”

“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”

“Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.”

“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”