Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.