The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.