For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.