“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.”

“Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer except herself?”

“But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?”

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”

“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”