Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?