“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”

“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”

“Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?”

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”

“To answer your question, you want me because I'm made of awesome.”

“I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatu...”

“They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their b...”

“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of in...”

“By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhap...”