I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.