having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.