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

You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

If you haven't had your life what have you had?

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.