Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

The defective can be more than the entire.