What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.