I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.

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

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?

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.

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.

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