“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”

“There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.”

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”

“Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.”

“Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”

“I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.”