Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

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.

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

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

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.