In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.