People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.