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.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

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?