Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.