I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.

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.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.