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.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: - it seems rather to enlarge it.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

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

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.