audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

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.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Cruelty is the only sin.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.