Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be