Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

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?

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

[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 . . .

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