At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.