To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.