A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

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