One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.