We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.