If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on fair play wherever we have the power to do so. The rest is in the hands of the Lord, or nature, which swings, apparently, from one extreme to another.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.