A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

Why not give Christianity a trial?

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.