Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.