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.

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

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

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

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.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.