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

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

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?

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

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

[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 . . .

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