From the time my father died, leaving me to discover that every penny of the fortune I imagined he possessed was due to swarming creditors, and that nothing of all our house and estate was left to me
look more like a tramp than a millionaire."
I am passionate, resentful, impetuous,—frequently unsympathetic, and inclined to morbidness and melancholy, and I confess I have imbibed, consciously or unconsciously, that complete contempt of life and disbelief in a God,
I personally consider that a woman who shows the power of her intellect is more to be respected than the woman who shows the power of her legs. But men always prefer the legs
You belong to the age, Tempest,—it is a decadent ephemeral age, and most things connected with it are decadent and ephemeral.
Live your life to yourself,—if you do anything for others they will only treat you with the blackest ingratitude,—so take my advice, and don't sacrifice your own personal interests for any consideration whatever
your life to yourself,—if you do anything for others they will only treat you with the blackest ingratitude,—so take my advice, and don't sacrifice your own personal interests for any consideration whatever
I went joyfully out of the dreary house where I had lived so long among disappointments and difficulties, turning my back upon it with such a sense of relief as could never be expressed in words,
Genius thrives in a garret and dies in a palace,—is not that the generally accepted theory?"
