Quotes from Augusta Jane Evans

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

But those who even slightly understand my character, must know that I have always been too utterly indifferent to, too unfortunately contemptuous of public opinion, to stoop to any deception in order to conciliate it. Moreover,