“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”

“I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.”

“It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. I discern great sanity in the Greek attitude. They never chattered about sunsets, or discussed whether the shadows on the grass were really mauve or not. But they saw that the sea was for the swimmer, and the sand for the feet of the runner. They loved the trees for the shadow that they cast, and the forest for its silence at noon.”

“As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”

“To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.”

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”

“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.”