Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.