There are men who are capable of loving a machine more deeply than they can love a woman. They are among the happiest men on earth.
Seventeen
The uncultivated reader is content to live wholly in and for the moment, sentence by sentence. Keep him amused and he will ask no more. You may delude him, you may withhold from him every single thing to which he is rightfully entitled, but he will not care. The more crude you are, the better will he be pleased.
Eighteen
It is only in the stress of fine ideas and emotions that a man may be truly said to live.
Nineteen
Oh, innocence! Oh, divine ignorance! Oh, refusal! None knows your value save her who has bartered you! And herein is the woman’s tragedy.
Twenty
To extract from the brain, at will and by will, concentration on a given idea for even so short a period as half an hour is an exceedingly difficult feat—and a fatiguing! It needs perseverance.