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!

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

There is no wealth but love.