I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

Always wanting another man than your own.

Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.

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

Some folk want their luck buttered.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.