Date: 1889
"The story is a fiction, -- the coinage of the brain, -- the book a reality."
preview | full record— Hare, John Innes Clark (1816-1905)
Date: 1893
A woman's nature "is like a great house full of rooms ... and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes."
preview | full record— Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)