When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.