Flowers are like visible messages from God.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.