To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.