Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.