There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.