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.

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

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.

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

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.