No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

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

[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 . . .

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

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

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