Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.