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.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

When a child is born the mother also is born again.