with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

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.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.