It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.