Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.