Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.