I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.