If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.