... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

One cannot revoke a true happiness.

once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.