Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.