Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

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

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

I can stand out the war with any man.