Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.