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.

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

[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 body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.