Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.