People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

... there are shadows because there are hills.

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.