"Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."
"Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength."
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."