I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

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.

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

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

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

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.