When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.