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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, …

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

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.

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.

To be young is all there is in the world.

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