Occupation: Author Birth: March 24, 1855 Death: December 11, 1920
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there ….
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea..
They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything..
Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched..
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them..
It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it go….
We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen….
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them..
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand..
Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to f….
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn..
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her ….
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, a….
If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand ….
God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light..
Soul, what have I to do with you?.
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, w….
Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!.
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has..
We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one anot….
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infa….