... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.