To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

It’s always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or...

Absence — that common cure of love.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.