I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it.

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.