Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.