Revolution is obstructed evolution.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.