If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

Anger as well as love casts out fear.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!