Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
When a child is born the mother also is born again.
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
There is no influence like the influence of habit.