We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

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

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.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.