That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.