She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change.