Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.