If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.