Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.