You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.