This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Man has never been the same since God died.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.

Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.