Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

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

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?