I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

Dignity is an anachronism.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.