The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.