I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are not creatures of despair.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate awaiting them on this earth.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

As to honour - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

I wonder whether, in the history of all the civilisations that have ever been, a more insanely optimistic notion has ever been entertained than that you and I,…

Farewell the hope that mocked, farewell despair That went before me still and made the pace. The earth is full of graves, and mine was there Before my life beg…

Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.