The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

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.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

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

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

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