He existed for me, and after all it is only through me that he exists for you. - Joseph Conrad

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

"And after all, one does not die of it." "Die of what?" I asked swiftly. "Of being afraid."

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.