I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.