I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

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

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I am sure he is- I feel akin to him- I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.