"I knew she had eaten my father, and I was glad I did not have to fight any longer to keep her from eating me. Oh, the…"

"Then I was in love with herself after all, said Diana, making one of those feminine leaps in logic that leave men bre…"

"Not that any of the women spoke; they had done their speaking before church, and their husbands knew the price of peace."

"I promised that this would be a frank record, so far as I can write one, and God forbid that I should pretend that th…"

"If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get."

"A fool-saint is somebody who seems to be full of holiness and loves everybody and does every good act he can, but bec…"

"Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it was, that a seriou…"

"These petitioners had no conception of art; to them a picture was a symbol of something else, and very readily the sy…"

"I know flattery when I hear it; but I do not often hear it."

"I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two, sid…"