All intimacies are based on differences.

Art without life is a poor affair.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

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

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.