Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Life is a great disappointment.

All women are rebels.