Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.