I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.