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.

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

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

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