The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one