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

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

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

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.