But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Men can bear all things but good days.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.