It has occurred to me, brother, that wisdom may not be the end to everything. Goodness and kindness are, perhaps, beyond wisdom. Is it not possible that the ultimate end is music and gaiety and a dance of joy? Wisdom is the oldest of all things. Wisd...
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.
Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
When a woman speaks to a man about the love she feels for another man, she is not liked.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
A secret is a weapon and a friend.
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
