Occupation: Author Birth: March 24, 1855 Death: December 11, 1920
I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us..
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper..
Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will fe….
the brain works better if the hand works too..
Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist..
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue..
To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to….
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep..
We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World..
I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture t….
Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world..
One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter..
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again..
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife….
Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relation….