If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.