the only revenge worth having is success.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.