Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

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

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.

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.

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.

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.