It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave