Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

Her memory's your love. You want no other.