At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.