The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.

Feelings change facts.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

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.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

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.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.