I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?