Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.