Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.