What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to wha….

I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquis….

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and….

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul..

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more..

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody sel….

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading..

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard..

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied..

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean up….

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belon….

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind..

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and s….

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience..

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, fri….

Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for mater….