I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.