We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone.

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

One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.