[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

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

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.