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.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!