To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

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 forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

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!

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.