No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?