You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.