What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.