One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?