Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.