In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.