“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”

“There’s no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.”

“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.”

“I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.”

“There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.”

“She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.”

“The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.”