What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.