The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

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