... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.