Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.