We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

I hate people but I love gatherings.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.