the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
... 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.
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.