The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.