Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

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.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.