Death is too much to ask of the living.

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.

Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.