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

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.