Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

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

all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.

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.

to everything there is an end - except fear.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

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