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.
Alice JamesThe 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
Alice JamesI make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James