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
Alice JamesThough I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice JamesDestitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.
Alice James