Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.