The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.