Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.