Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

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.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

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

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.