Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.