However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.