Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.