The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

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?

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

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

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

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.