I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

Altogether too many sheep

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.