Augusta Jane Evans Quotes

United States, Author
May 8, 1835 – May, 9, 1909.

Augusta Jane Evans, or Augusta Evans Wilson was an American author of Southern literature. She was the first woman to earn US$100,000 through her writing.

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Augusta Jane Evans
- Heart
- Shadow
- Sanctuary
If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

Augusta Jane Evans

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Augusta Jane Evans
- Insanity
Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Augusta Jane Evans
- Earth
- Memories
- Sin
Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

Augusta Jane Evans
- People
- World
- Money
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.

Augusta Jane Evans
- Suffering
- Lifetime
It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Augusta Jane Evans
- Humans
- Blood
- Flow
All things are dark to sorrow.

Augusta Jane Evans
- Dark
- Sorrow

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!

Augusta Jane Evans
- Tears
- Luxury
- Relief