I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

Dreams are woven with threads of truth.

Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?

Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling of children from decidedly different backgrounds.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

She was poison in a pretty bottle.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.