Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.