This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

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

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

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

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.

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