Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

The harder I work the more I live.

First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.