It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.