A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.