I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.
Miles FranklinAll is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.
Miles FranklinCowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.
Miles FranklinWhat I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
Miles FranklinI'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.
Miles Franklin