I do not know which to prefer

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

To be young is all there is in the world.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American — on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, …

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.