Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

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.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.