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

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?

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

genius has no limit of sex or race.

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

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.