Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.