And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）

预测未来的最好方法是研究过去。

The poet’s task is to make the silence speak.

文化素养是社会交往的氧气。

我明白了成长意味着不害怕尝试新事物。

Forgetting is not a memory problem; it’s an attention problem.

I don't look for excuses. I look for solutions.

故事不是一条线，而是一张网。

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.