Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.