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?

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

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.

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

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

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

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