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

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

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

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.

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

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

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!